6 Types of Thinking

Remembering and Recalling

Analyzing

Applying

Understanding

Evaluating

Creating

Gaining and repeating information from memory

Starting as a toddler with learning shapes, numbers, letters, and colors.

Putting things together in a new way

It is the most difficult mental function, but is in high demand in the workforce

Pulling things apart to understand them better

Reading is the most common skill

You develop these skills in early education

Using old material or information in a new situation

Skills commonly starting in middle school, but sometimes in earlier cases

Mental skills you need for this action include examining, contrasting or differentiating, separating, categorizing, experimenting, and deducing.

You develop these skills in high school (mainly in science classes) and will also use them in college

Assessing, drawing conclusions from ideas, making judgement, data, or information

Critical thinking skills

Frequently used during peoples college years and beyond

I bake very often and I make most of my bake goods by memory

When I started working I had to learn to change the way I think. When I worked at Sonic I learned how to make drinks and milkshakes which taught me good skills, so when I quit and started at Topz I had to change how I did things a little with making the milkshakes.

I had to watch a movie and pull it apart to critique it

I have to do hawks assignments in English 0810 and right now I have to remember what a verb, pronoun, adverb, etc. that I have not had to remember since at least 5th grade.

In the work force you have to learn how to handle people. My way of learning was to put people in categories, such as people already know is gonna have an attitude which people now call "karens"

Whenever I walk into a room I assess the situation. I "feel the room". I judge base on how people are acting or their facial expressions if there is tension.